Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 18:42:16 +0100
From: Simon Holgate <sholgate@liverpool.ac.uk>
Hi,
I'm on my first hurd install and I've been working through the easy
guide. I'm installing on a 486 with 8Mb RAM, using the 19990505 tarball
with the updated native-install script and the MAKEDEV symlink changed
as per the easy guide. I currently have no ethernet card in this machine
as I just swapped the harddisk from another machine.
Everything seems to go ok, and although not finding the expected
etherent card there are no error messages. Serverboot says that it is
running without any paging. After the
/hurd/init: Using temporary console /tmp/console
shell
sh-2.01#
I type
./native-install
and get:
memory_object_data_request(0x0,0x0,0x69000,0x1000,0x1) failed, 268435459
(default pager): dropping data_request because of previous paging errors
(default pager): dropping data_request because of previous paging errors
(default pager): dropping data_request because of previous paging errors
memory_object_data_request(0x0,0x0,0x69000,0x1000,0x1) failed, 268435459
memory_object_data_request(0x0,0x0,0x69000,0x1000,0x1) failed, 268435459
Can anyone give me some pointers? Bad memory chips? (Debian 2.1 runs
fine).
Looks like you're running out of memory. No surprise if you're
running without any paging with only 8MB of physical RAM. You could
try to add some swap space before running `native-install'. If you
have a linux swap partition (say /dev/hdb3), you can use it on the
Hurd too. First, make sure that the corresponding Hurd device
(in this example /dev/hd1s3) exists. If it doesn't, create it using
MAKEDEV:
sh-2.01# cd /dev
sh-2.01# MAKEDEV hd1s3
To start using it type:
sh-2.01# swapon /dev/hd1s3
Be careful though. If you specify the wrong partition, you might
destroy all data it contains!
Mark